Pooja B

Recruiter

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India7 yrs 9 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Expert in building diverse tech teams
  • Proven track record in reducing hiring turnaround times
  • Strong stakeholder management and engagement skills
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Tech Recruitment Specialist with a focus on Diversity and Inclusion.

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Skills

Core Skills

Technology RecruitmentDiversity & InclusionProduct HiringStrategic SourcingTechnical RecruitingStakeholder Management

Other Skills

LinkedIn RecruiterCandidate ExperienceHuman Resources (HR)Stakeholder EngagementEmployee Engagementsocial media recruitmentSourcingHR StrategyBusiness AcumenHiring TrendsNegotiationMarket IntelligenceEmployee RelationsManagementFollowing Up

About

HR Professional with 8 plus years of experience in Tech Recruitment with expertise in e-commerce, Product/Startup hiring. Self-motivated, hardworking and goal oriented with a high degree of creativity, resourcefulness and commitment. Responsible for Talent development, Stakeholder management, Employer Branding etc.

Experience

7 yrs 9 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 4 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr
Current Experience

Warner bros. discovery

Technical Recruiter

May 2025Present · 1 yr · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Microsoft

Senior Talent Aquisition Specialist - IDC Hiring

Jan 2024Apr 2025 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

  • Strategic Tech Sourcing Specialist: Built tech team across M365 (copilot, mobile apps), Outlook, Windows, Teams, Edge Browser.
  • Extensive work experience in Engineering hiring (SDE 1/2/Senior/Principal), Design hiring (UX Designer 1/2/UX Researcher 1/2/Content Designer 1/2/Senior/Principal), Product hiring (Product Manager 1/2/Senior/Principal).
  • Client & Stakeholder Focus: Partner with business heads and stakeholders to identify, screen, and source top talent.
  • Diversity Champ: Given Quantifiable result in hiring Female Engineers across the Outlook team. Conducting the diversity programs, crowd sourcing and diversity hiring events resulted in maintaining the diversity of the teams.
  • Proactively building the pipeline for niche and repetitive roles which was resulting in reducing the turnaround time from 150 days to just 45 days.
  • Maintaining the profile quality and providing top-notch candidate experience resulted in reducing the offer dropouts from 30% to 15%.
  • Expertise in meeting hiring metrics, ensuring optimal talent acquisition & streamlined processes.
Technology RecruitmentLinkedIn RecruiterCandidate ExperienceDiversity & InclusionHuman Resources (HR)Stakeholder Engagement

Paypal

Talent Acquisition Specialist

Oct 2022Aug 2023 · 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

  • Roles and Responsibilities :
  • Sourcing the potential candidates using various techniques that includes social media platforms, Boolean searches and professional networks.
  • Works closely with multiple BU’s on requirement gathering, develop strategy for demand fulfilment.
  • Conducting the diversity programs like Recharge- a six-week programme to help women technologists return to work after a personal career break.
  • Extensively worked for Niche skills.
Product HiringStrategic SourcingEmployee EngagementDiversity & InclusionHuman Resources (HR)Stakeholder Engagement

Microsoft

Talent Acquisition Partner

Apr 2021Sep 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Building Software Development teams from the scratch for verticals across Microsoft Edge Browser, Teams, Azure Data etc.
  • Expertise in areas of Sourcing, Screening, Stakeholder Management, Market Mapping, Technical Recruitment.
  • Hands-on experience working on Linkedin, Naukri and other social platforms like Instahyre, Github, Xray.
  • Conducting the diversity programs, crowd sourcing and diversity hiring events resulted in maintaining the diversity of the teams.
  • Developed and executed comprehensive search strategies designed to recruit senior and niche candidates with limited candidate pools.
  • Forecasting the offer dropouts and maintaining the backup pipeline tremendously reduced the time to fill.
  • Stakeholder Management: Streamlining the process effectively and managing the Stakeholder relationships to ensure that the business get satisfactory results.
  • Roles Hired For: Backend Development, Front end Development, Mobile Application Development, Big Data, Data Science, Android Hardware Engineer, Embedded Linux Kernel Development.
Strategic SourcingTechnical RecruitingStakeholder Managementsocial media recruitmentDiversity & InclusionHuman Resources (HR)

Careernet technologies

Associate Consultant

Apr 2019Apr 2021 · 2 yrs · Bangalore

  • Helped in building tech teams for Product, Service companies.
  • Developed hiring plans and working for success of hiring managers within the SLAs.
  • Extensive experience in Recruitment Lifecycle Sourcing, Screening, Offer Negotiation, Candidate Engagement.
  • Understanding & analysing the requirement of the position based on clients specifications involved in sourcing profiles through job portals, internal databases and professional networking.
  • Experience working with Job Portals (Naukri, Monster, Shine) and Social media tools (LinkedIn, Instahyre, IIM Jobs, google search, X-ray search)
  • Roles Hired for: Mobile Application Developer, Devops Engineer, Salesforce Developer, Test Engineer, Tech Architect, Business Analyst, UI/UX Designer, SDE 1/2, SDET.
  • Non Tech : Senior Finance Executive, Marketing Manager, Inside Sales.
Human Resources (HR)

Bright solutions

Recruitment Specialist

Jan 2018Apr 2019 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Human Resources (HR)

Education

AMC Engineering College - India

B.E — Computer Engineering

Jan 2012Jan 2016

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